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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Henrietta Votes for Postm aster,

Special to the Gazette.
HENRIETTA, TEX, Dec. 18.-The choice
of the people of Henrietta for our next
postmaster seems to have been arrived
at az last. Since the several mass meet
ings, elections, etc, held for the purpose
OF recommending s Insn for that position,
request has been received from the Hon.
Silas Hare, Congressman from this dis
trict, that another attempt be made to
find the most popular and suitable man.
The election was ordered to be held on
Saturday, December II, between the
hours OF L and O'Clock p. m, each and
every male patron of the office over TWEEN
ty-one years of age to have vote. W A.
Squires and r G. McPhail were the can
didstes. The result was W. A. Squires,
1874 and r. G. McPhail SO votes. This
will probably close the election for post
master for the year 1887.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
A Child Orawls into the Fire.
ldence of tha Gazette.


ANsoN, TEX, Dec. 1s.-Yesterday the
little seven-months-old Child of our
worthy postmaster, W. Med. Bowyer,
crawled into the fire and burnt Itself into
q blister from the waist down. The
mother had stepped across the street to a
grocery store, and left the child and its
brother in the room, and when the mother
had gone the little brother went out OF the
house, leaving the little child alone. A
passing neigh6or was attracted to the
house by the unusual screams of the
child, and found the little fellow lying
with half his bedy in the fire, burning and
frying in horrible manner. Its shoes
were burnt, and its clothing to its waist
were burnt Off. Some of the chlld's toes
are burnt off, and its body is crisped. The
mother tainted; the Esther is almost dis
tracted. Doctors say the child may get
we'll
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
NO BLAME ATTACHED.
The Charges againsI Mayor Smith are
Sifted and Dismissed.

Sifted and Dismissed.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Dec. IS 1t
transpires that the rumors CT Mayor
Smiths indictment grew out of the fact
that the grand jury is now in session, and
that Prosecutor Pugh asked for testimony
in an investigation made sometime ago
by the board of revision of the charge
made against Reed Johnson, clerk Of the
police board. Johnson had been sent to
Kentucky to buy horses for the police
department. He employed a friend,
who was an expert, to make
selections for him, and IN
stead OF paying his commissions seps
rately, put it into vouchers which repre-
ssnted the price OF the horses. The
amount Was S1450. He WAS found guilty
o! unofficial conduct and was discharged.
Mayor Smiths connection with the effsir
was TO certify to the bills. He knew
nothing of Johnson'S method, and the
BOARD specifically found that ne blame
was attached to him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
The Dead Anarohist,s Rock

CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. 18.-A. r. Par.
sons book, "The Philosophy Of An
aIchy," was issued to-day. One chapter
brings out some new points in regard to
the trial of the anarchists. 1t appears
that William Foster and Captain Black
were st variance as to the method OF con-
Quoting the case; that Foster carried the
day in the counsels, and had his way in
court. Aside from this pregnant feature
of the book as foreshadowed by q few
pages given out some time ago, it is de-
voted to expositions of the authors Pc
culiar social views. Instead of being is1
sued by some business firm, as intended,
it is published by his wife.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
PAPERS FOE .h az :
zstte Sifce very cheap.
Took In tha Rnli P1Rhts,

Special to the Gazette.
Ell PAso, TEX, Dec. IS.-The easx1
excursionists now in this city attena'
the Paso del Norte bull fights todN
Five bulls we're brought into the sfsp
and goaded by the bull fighters as long
they showed any fight. Whenever =, =
bull got the advantage the excursions.
clspped their hands and shouted "bfN9
while the Mexicans sympathized WIN y! =
quill fighters. After the fight ended :;
excursionists came across the river ~
took the train for California.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

HENRY r. JACKSON of Georgia, he OF
the unreconstructed gall and eternity OF
mouth, is out in pamphlet form telling all
about his Macon speech, and it's conse-
quences, including his tilt with the old
Roman. 1t is sixteen page pamphlet
and shows more than anything else that
the Generals pronounced jackassry is q
double breasted exoterY.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

WICHITA FALLS will give grand ball
and supper welcome to the Rock Island
engineering corps on the 23d inst. THE
GAZETTE acknowledges the receipt of a
very cordial invitation to be present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
THE ACTUAL SETTLER.

IdE All U.AL DE ILEh.
Waco Examiner: Nobody is satisfied
with the present conditions that environ
the school lands and obstruct their settle
ment. In theory the law seems to be
favorable to the sale and settlement of
these lands, but in fact it is impracticable
and hindrance. Were Governor Ross
to make tour of the Panhandle
and talk with the people as well
as the land men and officials, he
would learn much that he cannot
find out by sending agents. 1t is not
doubted that his desire and purpose is to
enforce the lease law, ard give the set
tier all the rights and opportunities It's
theory apparently permits; nor Is the Ex-
aminer ignorant of his earnest anxiety to
see the school lands taken up by actual,
bona fide settlers and converted into
homes and productive farms. This is one
of the leading aims of his adminisfrs-
ton, and where there is conflict between
such settlers and the range system under
the lease law, the former can rely on his
sympathy and sid. But that will not
cure the evil-it is inherent in the law,
which has loopholes for fraud by specul.-
tive settlers, and in the range system
which has power to defy the
law. The blame is not all to be
laid at the door Of the lessees;
the land bummers who make pretense OF
purchase and settlement, and use the six
months option as leverage for specula-
ton, are the pestiferous devils that cause
most of the trouble aud discourage the
honest prospector for settlement. In a
recent interview with q GAZETTE re-
porter, General Dodge, the managing
builder OF the Fort Worth and Denver
Railroad, gave his views of the working
of the lease Law; in the Panhandle, and
said:
OF course, theoretically, the actual settler Is
given precedence over the stockmar, but prac
tically the leasing 81 stem is an insurmounta-
BILE barrier to bona fide settlement.
Commenting on this, the Mobeetle Pan
handle, a paper conducted more in the
interest of cattle syndicstes than in the
interests of the actual settler, makes this
remark:
We commend the perusal of that sentence to
Hall, the Dallas News and Aus
tin Dispatch, and other parties and organs
with a tenderness toward syndicates and cor
porations.
1t might with greater propriety have
commended the sentence to Governor
Ross and the Legislature. The prime
object of the law, as interpreted by the
Governor, is to invite bona fide and val
liable settlers into the Panhandle, that the
school lands may pass into the hands of
industrious country building citizens
aud the school fund be so enlarged by the
annual increase from the purchases as to
swell the available fund to its maxi
mum and relieve the tax payers. This is
the theory and design Of the lease law,
but the rangemen find weak points in it
and profit by the advantage, and the
speculative socalled settlers take ad-
vantsge of defects that enable them to
ply the "lariat" industry ad lioitum; and
thus between the two repelling forces the
honest inquirer for school lands and
home is discouraged and passes on to
more hospitable conditions.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Gainesville Whisky Dealer Attached.

Special to the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Dec. IS.-Edwa-d
Coopman, an extensive whisky dealer In
this city was closed up by attachment lste
last night. The first attachment run was
py Charles Scheuber & Co of Fort Worth
for the sum Of $4,000. Other attachments
will probably be run tomorrow.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
THE CHEROKEE TROUBLE.
General Armstrong on tn @ GROUND to dust
Matters

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 1S.-Dispatches
from Tallequah, 1. T., say that General
Armstrong, United States Indian in
spector, who has been detailed by the
Interior Department to investigate the
Cherokee complications over the chief.
tsinship Of that nation, arrived at that
place, to-day; and in conjunction with
Agent Owens, who has been On the
grounds for some days, Will make an ex-
animation of affairs, and will adjust the
trouble il possible.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE editors of the New Orleans Times
Democrat and Picayune are passing each
other the compliments of the season. II
takes nearly column to tell it, but the
I'D says the Pic. editor IS guilty of q
psrsimonious frugality in purveying the
truth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

Texas has 100000 acres of the
finest public lands, which will be
sold to actual, bona fide settlers at
from So to 81 an acre, On forty
years time at low rate of interest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Assignment O. Caldwell.
Special to the Gazette,

SFbCIdI 10 tHo OaAOFL6
CALDWELL, TEX, Dec. 1S.-Jones,
Hamilton & Barnett, the leading mer-
chants and bankers of Caldwell, made an
assignment last night TO W. K. Homan,
assignee. This firm has furnished the
Farmers Alliance of this and part of Lee
county with goods the past year. Their
assets far exceed liabilities, and it is
probable that creditors will be paid in
full
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

LET US not call Henry George crank
until sfter.the tariff is reduced. He has
made more and abler arguments in favor
of tariff for revenue thsn Mills or Morri-
son ever dreamed OF.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE Republican clubs Of New York
have resolved that L. @. G. Lamar should
not be appointed to q seat on the Su-
preme bench. When Jay Gould gave
800, 600 for Stanley Matthew'S seat the
Republicans had no objections to offer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

LITE is too short to indulge in Grgu.
ments concerning the past. What We
want is something that will serve the
purposes of the present and future, in the
matter Of bringing people to the state.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE stste of Texas does not appropri-
ate money to induce immigration and she
may be inhospitable, but what did Cali
fornia do for Texas railroads that they
should favor that state and give low rates
to build it up at the expense of Texas?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
A Compromise.

Special to the Gazette.
ABILENE, TEX, Dec. 1s-The case Of
L. G. Wise vs.. the Abilene Building and
Loan Association was compromised in
the County court by consent OF counsel
on Saturday, the plaintiff obtaining an
amount nearly equal to the damages
claimed without going into trial.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE King OF Hawaii has had his salary
reduced. It this thing keeps up it will
coon pay better to herd sheep than be
king of the CannibaI islands.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Grandyisw.
1ndence of the Gazette .

Corr dependence Of the Gazette
GRANDvIEw, TEX, Dec. 1T. z.
Pittman and J. F. Edwards have bought
F. M. Faulkner's grocery business and
Mr.. Faulkner retains his interest in lum-
Der.
A freight trsin jumped the track this
evening and left two cars in the ditch
about one mile north of GrandvieW.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

stand and testified in reference to letters
which his father lad written asking him
TO swear falsely. The son said he could
not take fslse oath even 10 save his own
tat2eT's neck.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Son restifies Against Father.

LEBANON, Pa, Dec. ls.-The case of
William Showers, who has been on trial
for several days charged With numbering
his two grandchildren, was left to the
mercy OF the jury at 10 last night. Almost
dramatic scene occurred during the
closing hour OF the trial when Steven
Showers, son Of the accused, took the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Christmas side.saddles.

Your lady fsieud would sppraclsSs.
handsome sidsNSddle, and Tscki 0aI! -
some Of the .prettsest oles you ever ~: s-~
and he has put price on them p-A'-''
them in the reach of an.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Endicott at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Ill Dec. 1S.-Secretary En-
dicott arrived here last night from the
east, hungry and tired, and refusedto be
talked TO. He left this morning for the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

FORTY miles more of track will carry
the Fort Worth and Denver outside the
state, and track Is being laid at the rate
of two miles day. On to Denver.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE Dallas convention is Only the be-
ginning Cf tha work. II mus be kept W
iacessantjy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE Alta California says that fried mice
are sure cure for the humps. Pity
ex-Editor Barlow had not found it GU;
earlier in life.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

branch Offices OF The Gazette.
DALLAs-725 Main Street, W. ". Hayward
Agent. .
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE editor Of the Austin Dispatch re-
fuses to crafty his friends, who are i'm
porturing him to form another cabinet
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Lsprsbes ssPres.nts.

You could na Select a present that
would be m9% xsiua5le to your friend
than a handsome lspAobe, and no one has,
finer ones than Tacgabery. rs 81
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

The question is not how three daily
papers live II TeXaIkans, but how they
csn be so good So they ere.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

No old stock, everything new u :
holiday lilsses =. G. Browning . :
500 sMain street.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

GIVE Texas fighting chance with it's
competitors in Inc northwest and On the
PAcilc.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE Dallas convention tomorrow
promises to be one long to be remem-
beted in the states history.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

Turner & Mcclure sre sole agents fol
princess" teas
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

The Trinidad (ColJ Citizen writes of
"s ride to Apishapa" Let's have the
name in plain United States.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Decatur.

| Special to the Gazette.
DECATUR, TEX, Dec. 1S.-There is to
be an election for alderman Monday to
| fill the unexpired term of John Shankeer
| who went to California.
The school teachers meeting is in pro-
gress this evening.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

Offensive ,hteath finishes Wiz the use
of DR.. Sage's Csssrrh Remedy. go
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

THE promise Ct wheat crop in Texas
WIS never finer, and the news from
Europe is of warlike nature.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Ready Made Emit Cakes.

Housekeepers, 1t fs q saving ID =,
way to buy Larrabee's fruit CAKES :
sale ct the Fort Worth GROCER COS
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Leather Rockers

In oak and mahogany. Designs sre - =
and prices low. FAXES W.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

Vases soc to So per pair, ST "
drug storef 5g9 Houston street.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

"Princess,n tbs finest tea in the market
is sold only BY Turner & Mcclure.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
THE GAZETTE has the largest
eona-Rde Circulation of any Daily
Newspaper published in Texas.

ADVER CgSIr RATES.
DAILY EDITIoN-(SeEen issues week.
EoapIrsll type. II lines to an inch, and about
seven Cd words to the line,
eea I.,cn H.srInn cnnsecfIfsre islserfinnss
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

have done his task willingly and well,
orce and for all.
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o8LYYRRRD By CARRIERS:

Rem!ttGnces by draft, poSto1sce money oTdeT 0s
rs9isteTeG letter, ut risk Of Office,
CorresrondeEoc is solicstsd Tpon az 's'os e's0
Issts. ..
Prompt information Of events dn ''e:Ss happe.s
TAGS or oe,srGI i,uerest solicited. SseG Sau os prop
~ COMMUNICATIONS intended for pssb4c6tsos'
nst &c accompanied by the ,7fsters 'adHas osid "a
SyEss-eot Tor pxbl;cztson-b.st as an eviSesce Of
good (Gitb. - $780,.
ssrsGqe, 10 s5ssEvsE sosH rEeass ios0ss stamp JoS
Pspis. ,, -, .,
ssa.hsr on business for publication should Dc
addressed 20 THE GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUB
LISTING Co, Pcff Worth, Ts@., AND NOT TO
9NDIVIDUALs.
Az checks, Ssof.es orders, postal notes, &C.
shas..G be asads payable to tbs DEMOCRAT FoB-
syEEIBG 90.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS,

Al persons seeking employment arH7 can M
afford to pay may GdrertiSe in this column 70,
situations free Of charge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

And to buy them casts but little NV I,
you get your CHRISTMAS presents " :
Hone, Waller & Co.'S.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

No display ads. OF less than three lines taken
for either edition.
Three lines or more, display, ngureo II Plo
rata rate Of an inch.
sIryle lines Of reading matter count as two
sFo lines as three.
Triple column 8dc., 10 per cent? fopr COL
gnne or more, % per cent additional.
gSaa.GI Positiors-Ads. ordered on hrst page,
SSso.,5 price: on the eighth page. 30 per cent.
additional; on any other specified page, 20 per
cent. additional.
Reading McsteT ordered In any special posi-
Son or on ssy specified page. Is per cent add
tioaal
Cats must be mounted Oh metal base.
TERMs-Bills payable monthly unless other
wise contracted for, and In advance when par
ffes' financial standing is not known to us.
transient advertising payable in advance,
ScIrnen copies sent on application. Address
DEMOCRAT PUB. CO..
Fort Worth Tex
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
Rattan Koanery,

RattHn H0oEafSy
New styles and largest stock in Texas, is
shown byFakes & Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

nave ume 70 2eF.uuIlns sns uay. 49,. msi
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FOR RENr-D8ELLIkG5.
ROR sALR

ITO HOTEL MEN-The furniture and fixture;
L of the aasnHan House fors eele. Address O.
p. u e. De ton Texas
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One stms, IS osnts per line; two or more IN
asrEiors, Is cents per line each insertion
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-14
BaBing Powder VS.. Cream of Tar

1t will not help the matter any if, to
void the impurities and poisons in the
cheap baking powders, the housekeeper
returns to the use of cream OF tertar and
soda. The cream of tartar OF the pres
ant day, as found On sale at the grocers,
is quite as impure as.many of the baking
powders. Tests made by the Massachu-
setts and New York State Boards of
Health have developed the most aston
ishing venality on the part of cream OF
tartar manufacturers and venders. Twen.
ty-seven samples, claimed by dealers to
be pure, were analy zed. They were
found to contain from three to ninety
three per cent. of alum, lime, etc.
Samples of soda analysed showed the
same extent of adulteration. Not only
is it unsafe to use such leavening agents
in bread, biscuit or cake, because of
their deadly effects upon the system, but
they cannot be relied upon to produce
light food. The result of their use will
be heavy bread, yellow or bitter biscuit
and cake
Most of the baking powders and bread
preparations of the market are made
from the very cream of tartar above de-
scribed, or from alum, which is poison,
or from phosphates derived from dis.
gus ing processes from the solution OF
old bones in sulphuric acid, so that their
use and the use of the adulterated and
impure cream of tartar are attended with
the same dangerous and unsatisfactory
results.
The only way to overcoms all ditficul.
ties attendant upon the use of leaven-
ing agent would seem to be in the selec-
tion Of baking powder of thoroughly
well established reputation, whose abse-
lutte purity, wholesomeness and effective
power as leaveDing agent have been
confirmed beyond contravention. The
Royal Baking Powder unquestionably
meets this mark. Indeed, it has been
found to be the only baking powder
upon the market that is free from lime,
alum or phosphates, and chemically pure,
Prof. Mott has explained the reason
for this absolute purity. 1t exists in the
new methods of retining cream OF tartlr
owned and employed exclusively by the
Royal Baking Powder Company, by
which only can the chemically pure ar
ticle be produced A portion OF Prot.
Motifs report is worthy of reproduction
in this connections:
"The Royal Baking Powder is abso-
lutely pure, for | have SO found it in
many tests made both fer them and tn e
U. S. government. l will go still fur.
ther and state that because of the facili-
ties of that company for obtaining per-
fectly pure cream of tartar, and for
other reasons depending upon the prop
er proportions of the same and the
method of its preparation, the Royal
Baking Powder is undoubtedly the pur.
est and most reliable baking powder Of
fered to the public.
HENRY a. MoTT, PHI. d., etc.